Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your editorial comment apparently came from some unauthoritative source, for analysis of specimens at Harvard University indicate the coal is sub-anthracite. Its weathered appearance may have led even men in the field to surmise its quality to be poor. This of course is due to the fact that some of the coal seams have been exposed, and have therefore undergone oxidation and alteration...
...entangle a real enemy. Defending fighters signaled contact with the raiders by flashing lights, which were checked by staff observers. Effectiveness of the bombers and antiaircraft was recorded photographically. That night Eastland bombers made 100 raids, 500 in the three-day maneuvers, and the Air Ministry reported that, despite poor visibility, the spotters in every case gave defenders advance warning...
...July department store sales were up 2% (U. S.: 3%) over 1938 (a poor year). But smart Lord & Taylor President Walter Hoving reported a 47% increase the first week of August, attributed 75% of it to Fair visitors...
Last week the Milkman's Matinee was four years old and far & away the most successful of U. S. late-trick radio programs. Since most radio men believe that the hours after 11 p. m. are poor sales time, few U. S. stations run a 24-hour schedule. Of these few, WNEW, with its very good friend, the Milkman, has conclusively proved that the after-midnight audience are spenders. Last year 40,000 of them telegraphed requests, at a minimum of 20? a wire...
...Table broadcast. In Washington, Columnist Pearson stuck by his pea-shooters, remarked: "No intelligent person would construe my remarks to mean that Mr. Hoover personally was buying up Southern delegates . . . they are being rounded up by his political friends in the manner that politicians usually round up Negro and poor white Republicans in the solid South. . . . As to how that is done, I refer to Bascom Slemp and Perry Howard, who did valiant work on Mr. Hoover's behalf prior to the 1928 Republican convention...